A magician and a mortician walk into a bar... All the magic went out of professional magician Beto Saladino’s life with the death of his husband. Five year later, he’s forty-two, cynical, and resigned to facing cold, hard reality all alone. Oh, and, apparently he’s also losing his mind. Why else would he be on a blind date, dressed in tux and sitting on a stool in Hollywood’s Magic Castle waiting for a stranger? But when a beautiful young man with wonder in his eyes steps through the secret door, Beto is bewitched. The man’s unrestrained joy in things Beto had long ago stopped noticing starts to illuminate the dark places in Beto’s heart. And for the first time in a long time, Beto thinks...maybe. Maybe it’s time to start believing again. This short story originally appeared in the Heart2Heart Charity anthology.
Author
After time spent raising children, earning several college degrees, and traveling the world with the U.S. State Department, she is returning to her first love - writing. A dreamer and an idealist, Amy writes about people finding connection in a world that can seem lonely and magic in a world than can seem all too mundane. She invites readers into her characters’ lives and worlds when they are their most vulnerable, their most human, living with the same hopes and fears we all have. An avid traveler who has lived in big cities and small towns in four different continents, Amy has found that time and distance are no barriers to love. She invites her readers to reach out and share how her characters have touched their lives or how the found families they have gathered around them have shaped their worlds. Born on Long Island, NY, Amy has lived in Los Angeles, London, and Bangkok. She currently lives in Fort Collins, Colorado for who knows how long.
